| Student pilot's achievement | 31 |
| Lead guitarists often play them | 31 |
| Fans of black-and-white squares | 31 |
| ___ cube (popular 1960s puzzle) | 31 |
| "___ friend you are!" | 31 |
| "___ up there . . . " | 31 |
| End of the customer's reply | 31 |
| What a sneaky person might have | 31 |
| You might give him the business | 31 |
| Sequel title starter, sometimes | 31 |
| Emilio Estevez, to Martin Sheen | 31 |
| Stork's delivery, sometimes | 31 |
| Small business successor, maybe | 31 |
| One who passes on a name, often | 31 |
| Last word in many company names | 31 |
| Heir, maybe, but not an heiress | 31 |
| "___ of Frankenstein" | 31 |
| Salvager's detection system | 31 |
| Method for detecting submarines | 31 |
| The "Moonlight," e.g. | 31 |
| "Hammerklavier," e.g. | 31 |
| "___, and yet so far" | 31 |
| "The ___ of Hiawatha" | 31 |
| This puzzle's theme entries | 31 |
| Supreme Court justice Sotomayor | 31 |
| A boom in the aircraft industry | 31 |
| Sega character ___ the Hedgehog | 31 |
| "Meathead," to Archie | 31 |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning work | 31 |
| Al Jolson's "boy" | 31 |
| Name used while pointing a cane | 31 |
| Former heavyweight champ Liston | 31 |
| "___ Boy," Jolson hit | 31 |
| "I'll be darned!" | 31 |
| Winemaking valley of California | 31 |
| Mexican state bordering Arizona | 31 |
| State on the Gulf of California | 31 |
| ___ Desert (area with saguaros) | 31 |
| Start of a D. H. Lawrence title | 31 |
| Last word in some company names | 31 |
| "___ of the Pioneers" | 31 |
| Part of a family business title | 31 |
| Book by W. Va.'s Pearl Buck | 31 |
| Beau and Jeff, to Lloyd Bridges | 31 |
| "Three" of classic TV | 31 |
| "In America" novelist | 31 |
| Microsoft rival in game systems | 31 |
| Name meaning "wisdom" | 31 |
| Jack of 'Barney Miller' | 31 |
| ___ Locks (Great Lakes passage) | 31 |
| Response to an impatient person | 31 |
| "I'm almost done" | 31 |
| "I'd just as ___" | 31 |
| Rodgers and Hammerstein classic | 31 |
| How urgent tasks should be done | 31 |
| Byproduct of organic combustion | 31 |
| Fresh from the chimney, perhaps | 31 |
| Second-year student, familiarly | 31 |
| Frosh, in a couple of semesters | 31 |
| Old-time entertainer ___ Tucker | 31 |
| Second-year students, for short | 31 |
| Juniors' juniors, for short | 31 |
| Musicians who like to get high? | 31 |
| Snoopy's doghouse, at times | 31 |
| Like a June day, to poet Lowell | 31 |
| Acid used in food preservatives | 31 |
| Actor Kevin who played Hercules | 31 |
| Palate cleanser between courses | 31 |
| Recovering from a charley horse | 31 |
| Like a mover's muscles, say | 31 |
| Whiner who wants to be a winner | 31 |
| One might refuse to shake hands | 31 |
| Kierkegaard who critiqued Hegel | 31 |
| Reason for keeping quiet, maybe | 31 |
| Hungarian-born financier George | 31 |
| Hungarian philanthropist George | 31 |
| "My humble apologies" | 31 |
| "I'm afraid not!" | 31 |
| Remark after holding someone up | 31 |
| Put in alphabetical order, e.g. | 31 |
| "I'm foundering!" | 31 |
| Mariner's "Help!" | 31 |
| Signal for immediate assistance | 31 |
| Letters addressed to airplanes? | 31 |
| "Send a rescue ship!" | 31 |
| "Help wanted" letters | 31 |
| Member of the 600 home run club | 31 |
| Fifth slugger to hit 600 homers | 31 |
| Start of an Everly Brothers hit | 31 |
| "That's terrible" | 31 |
| Not great, but not awful either | 31 |
| "Is it time already?" | 31 |
| Accused one's flippant dare | 31 |
| Quaint response to name-calling | 31 |
| One who can't pass the bar? | 31 |
| "Liquid diet" devotee | 31 |
| One perhaps having one too many | 31 |
| They often fail to pass the bar | 31 |
| They may stay till closing time | 31 |
| They're often in their cups | 31 |